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Christopher Allport (June 17, 1947 – January 25, 2008) was an American actor.
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Christopher Allport (June 17, 1947 – January 25, 2008) was an American actor.
Alexander Wise Allport Jr. was born in Boston. His acting life began at the age of nine in New Canaan, Connecticut, at the Children's Theatre. While at Northwestern University, he worked with director Paul Sills and Story Theatre. He performed in New York with the Public Theater at Lincoln Center, and with Ensemble Studio Theatre; and in Los Angeles at the Taper, South Coast Repertory and with Padua Playwrights. In 2007, he wrote and starred in The Backroad Home, a theatrical memoir with his original music, directed and developed by Paul Linke and produced by his wife, Susan Hayden (Ruskin Group Theatre).
One of his earliest television roles was as Tim McGowan on the soap opera Another World (1973–74). Around 1975 or 1976, Allport did a screen test with actress Amy Irving for the parts of Han Solo and Princess Leia, respectively, for the upcoming filming of the 1977 movie Star Wars. Neither actor got the parts, which went to Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, respectively.
His film credits include Savage Weekend, To Live and Die in L.A., Jack Frost, Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman, and Garden Party, which was released in 2008. He died shortly after the latter film was completed.
His list of television credits includes appearances on such programs as Midnight Caller, The X-Files, Commander In Chief, ER, Felicity, Mad Men, and Brothers & Sisters.
His role as Andrew Campbell on Mad Men was set to be a recurring one, though he only got to appear in one episode (season one, episode 4: "New Amsterdam"). In season two, after Allport's death, they killed off his character in the American Airlines crash storyline and, later, dedicated the episode to him.
On January 25, 2008, Allport was one of three men killed by three avalanches near the Mountain High ski resort in Wrightwood, San Bernardino County, California (in the San Gabriel Mountains). There were two other fatalities: Michael McKay, an off-duty member of the resort's ski patrol, and Darin Bodie Coffey. A fourth man, snowboarder Oscar Gonzales, escaped after getting lost and hitting a rock. Winter storms had been recently hitting Southern California; the San Gabriel Mountains, while usually free of avalanches, had been hit by 3 feet (0.91 m) of snow the week before Allport died.
Gender
Male
Birthday
June 17, 1947
Died
January 25, 2008
Birthplace
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
Garden Party
2008
City in Fear
1980
Jack Frost
1997
Who Will Love My Children?
1983
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
Invaders from Mars
1986
Message from Nam
1993
Savage Weekend
1979
Deadly Deception
1987
Dead & Buried
1981
The Connection
1973
News at Eleven
1986
Seizure: The Story of Kathy Morris
1980
David
1988
And Baby Makes Six
1979
The Sweeper
1996
The Lincoln Conspiracy
1977
Special Bulletin
1983
Spiker
1985
Though None Go with Me
2006
+ 8 more movies
NCIS
2003
The X-Files
1993
CSI: Miami
2002
Knots Landing
1979
ER
1994
JAG
1995
Brothers and Sisters
2006
Mad Men
2007
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Beverly Hills, 90210
1990
M*A*S*H
1972
Quantum Leap
1989
Without a Trace
2002
The Practice
1997
Chicago Hope
1994
St. Elsewhere
1982
Judging Amy
1999
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